The Mind Frame of the Everyday Progressive

I had an epiphany over the weekend. My boyfriend was walking our dog at a park. It was in the middle of the day and there was no one at the Park. There was a sign that said keep your dog on a leash and there is a law in the county we live in that all dogs must be on a leash.

The thing is, my boyfriend and I have spent a lot of time training our Dog to be obedient. He stops when we say stop. He stands by our side when we say heal and he doesn't do anything when he is around us, unless we give a command to do it. So when there is no one at the parks, we let the dog run around and get some energy out, fully aware, that if anyone where to come or any situation should arise, the single command of "Come" would put him in a mad dash to be right by our side at the drop of a hat and we would put him on the leash.

So my boyfriend is doing just that, playing with the dog running around the park. The park is placed right next to a school play ground at a school. One of the "Playground Attendants", a gentleman, yells at my boyfriend, "Hey, put that Dog on a leash!" My Boyfriend hears this and chooses to ignore it because like I said, we have thought out the letting the dog run off the leash and we figure we have it covered and are responsible owners and know that nothing will happen to anyone or the Dog because of our responsibility to train our dog. The man proceeds to yell at my Boyfriend, in front of the children on the playground.

At this point all of the Children are looking at the my Boyfriend and the Dog, and my Boyfriend responds back, "Why don't you mind your own business, obviously he is trained and obedient and we are doing no one any harm, in fact I just walked around and picked up other people's dog droppings to clean the park up. So they way I see it, I am helping here not hindering.” The man begins to yell at him about the law and some colorful language was exchanged and it resulted in the Playground Attendant calling into the School office to call a cop out to give my Boyfriend a ticket for having a dog off a leash. At that point my Boyfriend said, "You have spent about 20 minutes trying to get my attention and making a spectacle out of me, when for that 20 minutes you have not been watching the children. Something could have happened to one of them, and because you are so worried about policing me, someone who does not need it because I am a responsible pet owner, you have neglected your duties that are much more important." Long story short my boyfriend walked the dog home and nothing happened.

But isn’t that the mind frame of the “Everyday Progressive”. They want to make laws to regulate us and they want to spend and waste an exurbanite amount of time enforcing those laws, all the while they are neglecting the very things we should be watching and keeping safe. They believe know what is better for us then what we do. They feel the need to tell us what is better for us and think we are incapable of taking care of ourselves. They also tend to leap before they look. If that gentleman would have watched my Boyfriend and our Dog for even a little while, he would have seen that my Boyfriend had full control over the dog at all times. That there was no one else at the park and it was just a dog and an owner having a fun time together. Instead he felt the need to neglect his duties as a "Playground Attendant" and try to police something that didn't need policing.

The funny part of the story is when we went to go and pick up our niece and nephew that live with us, from that very school, the man recognized my boyfriend and proceeded to follow him to his car and take down his license plate number. What would be the need of that? That is just as the progressives do. If they cannot beat at reason, because their reasoning is usually unreasonable, they try to find other ways to retaliate. And use the laws they help create to do it. Don’t get me wrong, I know there are some crazy dog owners out there who shouldn’t have their dogs off a leash, I have seen them. But I don’t believe my right as a responsible pet owner should be taken away because of a couple stupid people.

The point is they put themselves on a pedestal, that they are smarter than the majority. It is funny that they have been given the title of the "People's Party" when they are anything but. They think so little of us, which they feel we need to be told what to eat, how to live, what to drive, what temp to keep our house at, what kind of health insurance we should have, etc. etc.

The difference is, they underestimate "We The People". I know if we rise up together, we will tell these people, you can do what you want and I will never tell you how to run your life... But I'll be damned if you tell me how to run mine!